Posted by Alanus on 28 Mar 2010, 00:09
Thanks chaps! Yes, I painted them. The flags designs are all from Alan Young's book The English Emblem Tradition v. 3: Emblematic Flag Devices of the English Civil Wars In the book he includes black and white scans of any known drawings of the flags from manuscripts, with notes about the colours. I have been partly tracing, partly copying these by hand, and reversing the image (by tracing) so that I get both sides of the flag. Then I paint them by hand using Vallejo paints.
The originals are about 5cm square, so I'll use a printer to reduce the originals for use in 1/72 scale.
This been good fun, and a good break from painting Landsknechts (aaaarrrgh!), but I'm new to this, so any suggestions about how they could be improved gratefully received.
Musketier - I'm not sure why you can't access my blog. You could try googling 'Dux Homunculorum' - hopefully that will work.
Cheers,
Alan.